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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What economic goal did the Revolution have?
(a) To establish commerce and industry.
(b) To improve the commerce that had already been established.
(c) To pull the nation out of poverty.
(d) To free Mexico from dependence on Spain.

2. Why are people sad if a person dies badly (Chapter Three)?
(a) There is no honor in an untoward death.
(b) There will be no rest for his soul.
(c) The death should reflect the life.
(d) The life is less important than the death.

3. What is the Spanish view of women in contrast to the Mexican?
(a) Women are idols.
(b) Women are decent and modest.
(c) Women are shaped by the minds of men.
(d) Women are wild and lecherous.

4. Who was Emiliano Zapata?
(a) The first leader of the Revolution.
(b) The replacement in Diaz's regime.
(c) The military leader in Diaz's regime.
(d) The leader of the Revolution of the South.

5. When Aztec victims were sacrificed, why did their deaths lack personal meaning?
(a) Their lives did not belong to them.
(b) Any sacrifice to the gods was seen impersonally.
(c) They were at the bottom of the social scale.
(d) No one was left to mourn for them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the Spaniards find when they arrived in South America?

2. Through dissimulation, what does a Mexican attempt to do?

3. According to Paz's argument, what is the source of the North American's irritation with the pachuco?

4. What was an important element of all ancient cultures?

5. How does the Indian perceive salvation? (Chapter Five).

(see the answer key)

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